Sound for the Future
Synopsis
"Stop eating toast and singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up and do something!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother, Manager, Guru), 1979. The Hippies performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of Cambridge friends; the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and gay Franciscan friars.
The Hippies then and now. What truly happened back in the past and whose side of the story should be told? Especially as the film’s director was the band's 11-year-old drummer? Matt’s mum Ruth, maverick, mystic, manager, plays a pivotal role in the bigger picture, offering an insight into a time of personal and social upheaval, both for her and her family in Thatcher’s Britain.
Using music of the period, archive, animation and poetic reimaginings of key moments, Matt Hulse explores a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, through an energetic, jarring, ride; part performance, part art, part process, post-punk.
Details
- Year
- 2020
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 102 min
- Format
- 4K, 2K, Super 8mm
- Director
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Matt Hulse
- Producer
- Ashley Horner, Aimara Reques
- Executive Producer
- Mark Thomas, Paul Ashton
- Editor
- Nick Currey
- Screenwriter
- Matt Hulse
- Director of Photography
- Ian Dodds
- Production Designer
- Victoria Brown
- Sound
- Cameron Mercer, Bartek Baranowski
- Music
- Simon Fisher Turner
- Principal cast
- Jamie Haughey
- Featuring Music From
- XTC, Gang of Four, Sleaford Mods, The Stranglers, Ought, Generation Riot, Doug Champion, Cheap Fags, The Hippies
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
Pinball Films Ltd/ The Hippies Film Ltd
5 Charlotte Square2nd Floor
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4XF
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